Censer in the Shape of a Seated Male Figure | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 900–1530

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 63.2 × 34.29 × 30.48 cm (24 7/8 × 13 1/2 × 12 in.)
Credit Line: Private collection
Loan number: ILE2010.17.1
Geography: Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Colima, El Chanal
Period: Late Postclassic Period
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Stendahl Gallery, 1970s
ex-collection: Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Abrams, New York

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian Art, sale cat. (May 15, 2009), 140, sale no. N08552, lot 140, ill.

Elizabeth Kennedy Easby and John F. Scott, Before Cortés, Sculpture of Middle America: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 30, 1970 through January 3, 1971, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), 286, no. 264, fig. 264.

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Object/Work type

censers

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